The MDR Catalogue

Volume 11, 2013

Volume 11 was launched on December 15th. This edition is the largest MDR published to date featuring one of our best collections of articles from contributors across five continents.

Under the editorship of Mary Nugent the Review harnessed the debating community’s renewed focus on equity with a suite of articles exploring the treatment of women and minorities in the intervarsity community. Through both empirical and personal perspectives authors make a range of observations and offer suggestions that should be of interest to anyone involved in collegiate debate. This edition also features pieces covering the experiences of debating societies and communities throughout the world and considers the value of various modern conveniences such as speaker tabs and information slides.

2013 also marks the launch of the new MDR website making articles more accessible and interactive than ever.

Following a large scale survey of debaters from around the world, in a discussion of the findings as well as the author’s own observations, this article explores the question of bias and discrimination towards debaters from different national, language and racial backgrounds.

Based on the experience of turning a new, unknown debating society into one that breaks a team at WUDC, this article looks at the challenges facing small societies, offering some suggested strategies to aid success.